Recording my travels on the Road through creative musings on politics, spirituality, sexuality, arts, people, ideas. Seeing Past anger, fear, hatred, anxiety, insecurity, resentment and regret, and on to a better world of freedom, tolerance, respect, love, and a joyful, transcendent romancing of the totality of being ALIVE! Encouraging expression of Spirit through integrated, enlightened renaissance individuals to mend of the fractured personality of our times. Mirabile dictu, don't you agree?

"Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate, but men will bore through to get there."

Saturday, March 17, 2012

"Zen strongly emphasizes freedom from all unnatural encumberances. Meditation is something artificially put on- it does not belong to the native activity of the mind. Upon what do the foul of the air meditate? Upon what do the fish in the water meditate? They fly and they swim... is not that enough? Who wants to fix his mind on the unity of God and man, or on the nothingness of this life? Who wants to be arrested in the daily manifestations of his life activity by such meditations as the goodness of a divine being, or the everlasting fire of hell?"

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"With the the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."

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"First they ignore you,Then they laugh at you,Then they fight you-Then you win!"